Research

My research interest is symmetric cryptology. More precisely, I work on the cryptanalysis and design of symmetric primitives optimized for use in advanced protocols such as multi-party computation (MPC), fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and proof systems.

Publications

Preprints

• A practical distinguisher on the full Skyscraper permutation - Note
  Antoine Bak, 2025
  [ePrint]

Thesis

• Cryptanalyse de primitives orientées-arithmétisation basées sur des boı̂tes S split-and-lookup - Master thesis
  Antoine Bak, 2024
  [pdf]

Talks

Seminars

• COSINUS Seminar - Cryptanalysis of Tip5
  Bergen, Norway, May 2024
• Journées C2 (Codes and Crypto) - Analysis of split-and-lookup-based ZK-friendly primitives
  Pornichet, France, April 2025
  [slides]